News : LORD announce ‘A Personal Journey: Revisited’

Premier Sydney melodic metallers LORD have been working hard re-visioning the band’s 2003 debut release, A Personal Journey with a newly remastered and re-recorded mix with the band’s current members.

Cast your mind back to 2003, a time when Dungeon (LORD’s former incarnation) were releasing their third studio album A Rise To Power. The album saw great success both home and abroad, and followed up with a tour of Japan and Australia. Around this time Dungeon front man, Lord Tim was working on his own solo project A Personal Journey. The album was written over many years, and as the title of the album suggests was a personal reflection of Lord Tim. It was eventually deemed to personal and inappropriate to contribute to Dungeon and subsequently got its own release in 2003 through Metal Warriors.

In 2005 the album was released through Modern Invasion which included a remix of the entire album and the bonus track ‘The Duel’. Now we get to experience the album in an all new remastered format with new arrangements thanks to the inclusion of modern day mixing techniques and production on the forthcoming release A Personal Journey: Revisited. Every song has been re-recorded with numerous enhancements.

A Personal Journey: Revisited is presented on a USB key with MP3 and 24 bit HD FLAC versions of the album, plus an A5 sized saddle-stitched card-covered booklet.

Lord Tim explains:

“A Personal Journey was recorded on literally zero budget, in a spare bedroom, on ancient hardware, into a computer less powerful than a current entry-level smartphone, and some parts of it were even transferred from a cassette into that computer. Although it eventually had professional mastering done to it, the album you hear today is still, more or less, that original demo. It’s both a blessing and a shame that this album is largely considered a little known collector’s item, despite boasting some really strong material.”

He continues,

“In 2014 we revisited the early years of the band with The Dungeon Era box set, which featured all of the original Dungeon studio albums re-recorded by the current line-up, with modern production techniques and available in better-than-CD-quality HD audio. The positive response from that release set the wheels in motion to give A Personal Journey the same treatment, and finally give that album the production that wasn’t possible when it was originally conceived.

“We literally thought outside the box when doing this release. We chose not to do a CD pressing. Instead, we’ve made a collectable ‘Access All Area pass’ style USB key with the songs pre-ripped to MP3 and 24 bit HD FLAC. Rather than a small CD booklet, we chose to do an A5 sized saddle-stitched card-covered booklet, with larger artwork, lyrics, liner notes and lengthy retrospective of the last ten years. We think that gives people the best of all worlds with the convenience of digital files, the sound quality of an exact reproduction of the studio masters, a collectible physical product and larger than CD booklet sized artwork.”

Pre-orders are currently taking place on the band’s official webstore: www.lord.net.au/apj-r/

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